Excerpt from Cleveland Club Men in Caricature: Union, University, Country, Tavern, Colonial, Hermits, Euclid, Rowfant, Roadside, Clifton and Cleveland Athletic <p></p>Colonel J J. Sullivan President The Central National Bank and The Superior Savings and Trust Company. <p></p>About the Publisher <p></p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p></p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from No Survivors: A Novel <p></p>I shall recount nothing further of the death of the Confederacy at Appomattox. Such accounting as has been given, may be re garded as the preface to the real saga of my life, its westward course following my abortive attempt to go home after the surrender. <p></p>My sole assets at the outset of the journey west, beyond a per sonal hardihood already described, were my horse and an old, Colt Dragoon revolver. I assume the three of us made something less than a reassuring picture. <p></p>Hussein, as the foundation of this dilapidated trio, contributed his full share to our appearance of villainy. A magnificent bay stallion, reputed to carry in his veins, undiluted, the blood of the original Barb, he had been presented to me by my troops after Chickamauga. <p></p>About the Publisher <p></p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p></p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Preliminary Report to the Study Committee of the National Board of Trustees This preliminary report roughly parallels the verbal report presented to the Study Committee at Huntsville, Alabama, on November Z, 1963. It has been prepared specifically for members of the National Study Committee to aid them in preparing for the meetings with local and state delegates. It has no other purpose, and is not designed for general distribution. The focus of this report is the mission or program of the NSCCA. Other issues are introduced only as they relate to the question of the Society's mission. It is our general position that a decision regarding the most appropriate and desirable mission for the Society must be made before most other questions can be profitably discussed and resolved. Once the Study Committee plan for series of meetings at local-state, regional and national levels is carried out, it will be possible to identify and explicitly define a mission that is both appropriate to the Society and acceptable to most of its members. A final report, which will be submitted to the Study Committee in August, 1964, after a decision concerning the Society's mission has been reached, will deal with a broader range of issues. Outline of the Report Part I of this report is a brief discussion of some current social trends that bear directly on the choice of a mission for the NSCCA. Part II of the report is concerned with current problems of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Progres de la Chirurgie en France: Ou Phenomenes du Regne Animal, Gueris par des Operations Nouvelles, sur la Fin du Xviiie Siecle L'observation que j'ai publiee sur le sarcocele de Charles Delacroix, ayant ete accueillie par les amis de l'humanite, j'ai voulu rendre ce petit travail plus interessant encore en y joignant la gravure de cette tumeur. Avant de la publier, je l'ai presentee a l'Institut national, a cote de son modele, pour qu'il existat une preuve a jamais incontestable de l'exactitude avec laquelle les artistes ont copie cette etonnante production. J'aurais desire publier les deux objets a-la-fois: mais le travail du burin etant toujours long, je n'ai pu repondre plutot a l'empressement que plusieurs naturalistes m'avaient temoigne de les voir reunis dans un seul ouvrage. A ce singulier accident de la nature, j'ai ajoute l'histoire et la description gravee d'un autre phenomene qui, sans avoir le meme degre d'interet, prouve neanmoins ce qu'on peut esperer des ressources de la chirurgie dans les maladies les plus bizarres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Excerpt from Regional Anatomy in Its Relation to Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 1 of 2 There has been a great deal said of the importance of anatomical knowledge, which is universally conceded to be the foundation of the study of medicine. As a teacher of anatomy, I have used all my influence to impress this on the minds of students, assuring them that the best book on anatomy is, and always will be, the body itself. In the curricula of the colleges and universities this is emphasized by a compulsory course in the dissecting-room, and each candidate for a degree is obliged to dissect three parts - the head, and the extremities, with contiguous portions of the trunk - at least once. From the knowledge gained by these dissections, and from lectures and textbooks, a student is supposed to acquire the information necessary to enable him to work intelligently and beneficially in his profession. He is expected to learn anatomy from his three parts. Considering the facts that the first part is generally wasted in acquiring the methods of using the instruments; that all the parts are seldom carefully injected with proper preservative; that the student rarely has the opportunity of seeing the viscera of the cranium, thorax, and abdomen in situ, much less of examining them and noting their size or structure and their relative positions to one another and to the cavities which contain them; and that often the value of the opportunity is not estimated until it is lost, it cannot be a matter of wonder that students look upon anatomy as one of their chief difficulties, and that only a few continue its study after graduation. There are many practical obstacles in the way of obtaining better and more abundant material for such research; but, after some years experience, I am forced to acknowledge that, even if these obstacles were overcome, the distaste for the actual labor of dissecting, which, besides being exacting, is associated with much that is revolting, and even hazardous to health, would deter many students from gaining that practical knowledge from personal observation which would enable them to recognize the different tissues by the sense of touch as well as by the sense of sight. In a crowded lecture-room only those who are very near can see the demonstrations so as really to profit by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Half Century of California Odd Fellowship: Illustrated To-day we are living in a commercial, a money-making age, the pessimist tells us, and in the footsteps of the Perfect Man we are making no progress. Never was there a more unreliable statement made, for the dawn of this century saw in existence more charitable and benevolent organizations than in any previous period of time. Organizations in which men and women have bound themselves together under various social names, each institution striving to accomplish the most in helpful assistance. In this grand work for humanity. Odd Fellowship leads, and beneath its white three-linked banner a million and a half Odd Fellows and a half million Rebekahs march. Faith, Hope and Charity their watch-word - Friendship, Truth and Love, their battle cry. This army, like the Crusaders of old, gathers increasing numbers, power and enthusiasm as it moves through the century, and before I pen its record on this western shore, let us learn something of its God-ordained American origin. Five years after the close of the war between England and the United States, an Englishman by the name of Thomas Wildey had the courage to emigrate to the enemies country. The Americans then had no love for the Britons, and yet Thomas Wildey, with his wife, landed at Baltimore looking for work. In his veins there flowed no royal blood; no kingly heritage had he. He was of the lowly class - a common mechanic - a coach-spring maker; and yet, within his heart there was the ring of true manhood, and his name was destined to rest among the immortals. On his arrival in the Monumental City he found a pestilence raging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.